The findings, published in the journal Microbial Ecology, could lead to new ways to protect mature lodgepole pine trees—important to forest ecology and the forest industry—from disease and insect ...
Even if the tree is not culled ... didn't account for how climate and genetics interact to alter a pine's risk for disease. So researchers found a way to include these factors in their models.
Whitebark pines are under attack from an invasive fungus. But foresters are using seeds from survivors of the infection to replant decimated landscapes.